This was amusing, I thought. This Iranian radio producer wrote to me asking me to appear on a political talk program. I said to her that I would but that I would be quite critical of the US (I meant to say Iran, but I said by mistake US). She wrote back and said: yes, we don't mind at all that you are critical of the US. I wrote back and said: no, I meant to say that I would be quite critical of the Iranian government. She wrote back and said that it would be fine with her; that I can be critical of the Iranian government. Let us hope that she will keep her job. I once had a similar conversation with a presenter of a talk show on Syrian TV. I told him that I did not want to get him in trouble. He asked me to please try to be retrained in my criticisms of the Syrian government, and I said that I would at least be talking about the "stupidity of the Syrian government" if not worse. He asked me to please not use that language on his live show, I said that I will not promise. He had me on, and I used that language. He recently called me to invite me on, and I did not call him back because I don't want to cause people to lose their jobs.